Waste Disposal & Compliance Blog

When thinking about how to keep your staff safe and your practice away from paying penalties or fines, do you think about proper medical waste disposal?

Big data is central to almost every conversation in healthcare right now, be it population health, the transition to value-based care or even precision medicine.

Healthcare leaders remain keenly aware that regulatory agencies can and are evaluating every facility within a system using criteria specified to its size or type.

Effective June 1, 2016, OSHA’s three-year transition to full alignment with the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) becomes final.

Stericycle’s Parkersburg, West Virginia was recognized as the first medical waste treatment facility awarded the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Voluntary Protection Program

At Stericycle we employ more than 18,000 full-time and part-time employees in 400 locations.

Ann Marie Pettis, Director of Infection Prevention at the University of Rochester Medical Center, shared a few memories in her article recently published in Greenhealth Magazine

By Rich D’Addario, Corporate Vice President Recently an article, “Minimize Risk: More than 27 Ways to Ensure Multiple Waste Streams are Safe and Compliant” was published in Executive Insights.

A recent report highlighted a small medical center in the Northeast being fined for failing to identify certain pharmaceutical wastes as hazardous and properly disposing of this waste.

You’ve heard it before: the best offense is a good defense.